On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 08:36, Thomas De Contes<d.l.tdecon...@free.fr> wrote: > > Le 14 août 09 à 13:12, Pablo Sanchez a écrit : > >> [ Comments below, in line ] >> >> On Friday 14 August 2009 at 6:23 am, Thomas De Contes penned >> about "[vbox-users] external disk" >> >>> hi :-) >> >> Hi Thomas, >> >>> i want to have all big files on an external disk (to not encumber my >>> internal disk and for back up policy reasons) >>> >>> sometimes i use my computer with the external disk disconnected, and >>> i still need to use a VM >> >> What is your Host O/S? Mine is Linux and using `ln' (symbolic links), >> I've moved my .VDI's to other disks. > > > mac os x > so i can use symbolic links too, thank you for your "testimony" and for the > idea :-) > > > but the question of this thread is : > causes it some problems if we open VB while the external disk is > disconnected, or the VMs are just unavailable until the external disk is > back ? >
Using symbolic links VBox probably won't say anything is wrong unmtil you try to start a VM. It will probably complain about an "empty" config file or empty disk image. But you should find no more problems besides this. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
